Andrew

Would you mind popping an email to our info@ address with a bit more info (e.g. Mac spec, any other OS mods you may have), I'd like to get to the bottom of this
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Where can I get me one of those technicolour terminal dragons?

For macOS Sierra, I'd recommend using Alfred 3 available directly from https://www.alfredapp.com
 
If you'd prefer to stay on Alfred 1.2, you'll have to disable the spell/define feature.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Had a feeling you did. That's why I kept at it. And the new update, which I downloaded from your link, works fine now.
 
All is right with in myAlfred world once again.  
 
Cheers,
Joe

Awesome. Thanks very much.
 
So about those old ladies and their cheese…

Fair enough - if you update to b749 it'll now accept / and ~/ paths and internally convert to a file url

This should now be fixed in the 3.2 b747 pre-release
 

Interesting spot! I've just spent a bit of time investigating this and it looks like macOS 10.12 has different behaviour where using fn+return passes the mods as being the number pad enter key so it's treated differently in Alfred. I'll get this fixed shortly and do another pre-release

@rounak while I can see why this issue is happening, what are you actually trying to achieve here?
 
If you want to show the actions panel for the given file, select the file and use the Features > File Search > Actions > File Selection hotkey. This will always show the actions panel for the file you have selected. If you want to pass the selected file through to a workflow for processing, set the hotkey action to "pass through to workflow".  
Essentially, if you were to type that exact file path into Alfred, you'd get the same results you are seeing here in the file system navigation from selecting a path and showing Alfred with that path. If you turn off "Fuzzy Matching" in Alfred's Features > File Search > Navigation, you'd see the exact file you selected in this case.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

@rounak while I can see why this issue is happening, what are you actually trying to achieve here?
 
If you want to show the actions panel for the given file, select the file and use the Features > File Search > Actions > File Selection hotkey. This will always show the actions panel for the file you have selected. If you want to pass the selected file through to a workflow for processing, set the hotkey action to "pass through to workflow".  
Essentially, if you were to type that exact file path into Alfred, you'd get the same results you are seeing here in the file system navigation from selecting a path and showing Alfred with that path. If you turn off "Fuzzy Matching" in Alfred's Features > File Search > Navigation, you'd see the exact file you selected in this case.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

To view Alfred on the currently visible screen, set the "Show Alfred on mouse screen" option in Alfred's Appearance > Options.
 
When it comes to files, Alfred simply asks OS X to open files and documents, so this behaviour is essentially controlled by OS X. Once Mavericks is settled, I am going to do a full usability run through and see if there are any quirks I need to work around, but for now, you may need to configure certain applications to be more compliant, or play with OS X options such as Mission Control's "When switching to an application" option.
 
[moving to the help forum]

@deanishe the first iteration of this will likely be defined in the JSON/XML returned from the script filter... i.e. "rerun script in x seconds if still focused". This would give a bit more dynamic control over duration / repeat for reload. It's also worth mentioning that Alfred will keep the current results visible while reloading the subsequent results, so you could theoretically do this (yet to be tried and tested)...
 
On first run of the script, show cached results and ask Alfred in the JSON to re-run the script pretty much immediately. Don't return updated results until you have them, and as soon as you do, return them and Alfred updates the results. This way, you get two runs, one with your cached, and one when you have a second set of results.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Just to let you know, {cursor} will be making it into Alfred 3, possibly even the next release  
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Just to let you know, {cursor} will be making it into Alfred 3, possibly even the next release  
 
Cheers,
Andrew

I'll look into this, but for now, try switching Alfred to focus compatibility mode in the Appearance > Options preferences
 
Cheers,
Andrew

@DONSA This definitely doesn't sound right - I'll add a ticket to look into this for the next release.
 
For now, instead of using Lock (which suspends the user session, and could be causing the issue), use Screensaver with Password
 
Cheers,
Andrew

The metadata for that file looks ok - try adding "public.tex" manually as the file filter type (instead of dragging in and seeing the dyn type)

Pop an email to our info@ address as I have a bit of a workaround when using target disk mode with the Powerpack 
 
Note: Alfred won't ever wipe preferences, you'll just be finding that the Powerpack is deactivating, and this will be un-setting the preferences sync folder. You shouldn't have to restore the prefs from backup.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

I suspect when you are re-compressing, you are keeping the parent folder containing json files, rather than just a zip of json files.
 
The easiest way to zip in a format compatible with Alfred directly from Finder is to go into the folder, select all the json files, right click and select "Compress x items". You can then rename the .zip to .alfredsnippets.
 
If you'd like to compress from the command line, Alfred uses the following:
ditto --norsrc -ck SnippetsSrcFolder CollectionName.alfredsnippets Where SnippetsSrcFolder is the folder containing all the json files.
 
Hope this helps
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Once a workflow is installed, if you select it in the list, right click and choose "Open in Finder" then simply put any additional resources here. When you export the workflow, it will automatically be included in the workflow itself.
 
Likewise, you'll also be able to edit any scripts directly in this workflow folder too.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

This is now possible in Alfred 3.1

This is now possible in Alfred 3.1

Alfred can actually do this, but it requires the Powerpack and a workflow to replace the default hotkey.
 
If you ever change your mind about "nor would I want to get powerpack just for this", let me know and I'll share a workflow with you
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Alfred will very quickly learn to re-latch keywords to selected results, so if you type 'm' and select 'Mailplane' a few times, this will be the first match.
 
As for iTunes, Apple have the following keywords set:
 
"Music, Radio, Apple Music, Apple Radio, iTunes Radio, Beats 1, Beats One, B1, iCloud Music Library, Apple Music Connect, My Music"
 
So it's going to be for 'music'.
 
Hope this clears things up!
 
Cheers,
Andrew

This is something I could likely improve but it would have compromises such as going in the opposite direction and allowing a processor intensive workflow to slow your Mac down. Having said that, I suspect that the lag will have something to do with OS X's metadata querying which is allegedly asynchronous, but I've definitely seen the setup calls being held / blocked which adversely affects Alfred.
 
I'm going to raise an internal ticket to see if there is something I can do to improve this situation.
 
*Pets MacBook above screen, don't worry, this won't last long...*
 
Cheers,
Andrew